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Monday, December 21st, 2009

Men Behaving Badly

Year-end and decade-end lists exist to argue with, so let me just say that Yglesias has his ranking of bad Post columnists wrong:

10. Michael Kelly9. David Broder8. Jim Hoagland7. Robert Novak6. Michael Gerson5. Fred Hiatt4. Robert Samuelson3. George Will2. Robert Kagan1. Charles Krauthammer

I’d move Will down somewhat on the grounds he occasionally goes off-script. Gerson [...]

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Chattered

Years ago, I sidled right up to wondering what on earth "chatter" could really be in counterterrorism. This week we learn that one possible answer is: crap.

Working out of a Reno, Nevada, software firm called eTreppid Technologies, Montgomery took in officials in the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology and convinced them that technology he [...]